ruby

Definitions of rubyn. - A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
2n. - The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
2n. - That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
2n. - See Agate, n., 2.
2n. - Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
2a. - Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
2v. t. - To make red; to redden.
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